The closed-mindedness that wasn’t: Need for structure and expectancy-inconsistent information
Social-cognitive researchers have typically assumed that individuals high in need for structure or need for closure tend to be closed-minded: they are motivated to resist or ignore information that is inconsistent with existing beliefs but instead they rely on category-based expectancies. The presen...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00896/full |